Ai Weiwei and the 'World of Madness'

It only took a little over four days after Ai Weiwei's sudden apprehension by China's Public Security Bureau at the Beijing Airport, for the government to initiate, as is its tireless and terrifying custom, the public process of building a "case" against the disappeared by alluding to the subject's "crimes."

Owing to comments made last week in three of t…